The practice of Hakka's homemade tofu
Prepare ingredients
Tofu 1 piece, minced meat 80g, salted fish 30g, Jiang Mo 1 teaspoon, cooking wine 2 teaspoons, appropriate amount of white pepper, salt 1 teaspoon, onion 1 handle.
Feed juice
1 tbsp oil consumption, 1 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tbsp corn starch, a little salt and white pepper.
Specific steps
1 Peel and chop salted fish, and mix in minced pork and Jiang Mo. Add cooking wine, salt and pepper and mix well.
Dice the tofu, scoop out 1 teaspoon from each piece of tofu and add the minced salted fish.
Scoop a spoonful of minced salted fish in the middle of the tofu block and steam it in the pot for about ten minutes.
While steaming tofu, add water to thicken corn starch into slurry, and cut onion into chopped green onion. After the tofu is steamed, carefully take out the plate.
5 Take the pot, pour water, put oil consumption and soy sauce, add some salt and white pepper to taste, pour starch liquid, stir, turn off the heat when it is sticky, pour it on tofu and sprinkle with chopped green onion.
Nutritional value of tofu
Tofu is nutritious and contains iron, magnesium, potassium, nicotinic acid, copper, calcium, zinc, phosphorus, folic acid, vitamin B 1, egg yolk and vitamin B6. Every 100g of solid tofu contains 69.8% water, including protein 15.7g, fat 8.6g, carbohydrate 4.3g and fiber 0. 1g, which can provide 61.2kj of heat. Tofu is rich in amino acids and protein, and it is a good supplementary food for cereals. Tofu fat is 78% unsaturated fatty acid and contains no cholesterol, so it is called "vegetable meat". The digestion and absorption rate of tofu is above 95%. Two small pieces of tofu can meet a person's daily calcium requirement.
Tofu is a nourishing, heat-clearing and health-preserving food. Regular eating can tonify the middle energizer, clear away heat and moisten dryness, promote fluid production to quench thirst and clear the stomach. It is more suitable for people with heat constitution, bad breath, thirst, indigestion and fever. Modern medicine has proved that tofu not only has the function of increasing nutrition, helping digestion and stimulating appetite, but also is beneficial to the growth and development of teeth and bones (there is also calcium king-sour horn in fruits), which can increase the content of iron in blood in hematopoietic function; Tofu contains no cholesterol, which is a delicious food for patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease. Supplementing nutrition for children, patients and the elderly is also a good diet therapy. Tofu is rich in phytoestrogens and has a good effect on the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. It also has the function of inhibiting breast cancer, prostate cancer and hematological tumor diseases. Sterol and stigmasterol in tofu are both effective components in inhibiting cancer.
How to choose tofu
1. Visual method
South tofu, commonly known as water tofu, has no water marks and impurities, and is of high quality. Those with waterline, bubbles, fine particles and yellow color are all inferior tofu. [5] North bean curd is commonly known as old bean curd, and its protein content is higher than that of water bean curd (one catty of soybean can make more than two catties of old bean curd and four catties of water bean curd). There are bubbles in the old tofu, and bubble flow came out because the water in the old tofu was separated from protein, which is why a catty of old tofu in the supermarket costs 2 yuan, because there is no water (if there are no bubbles, you should be careful that the boss adds food additives, I'm not denying additives, but we try to minimize them). The old Liu tofu of Sichuan Shehong Tianxian is famous far and wide. Authentic brine tofu, 30 years quality, absolutely does not contain any other additives (except brine), try to eat natural food, eat tofu on the same day.
2. Identification method of sewing needle Hold 1 sewing needle, let go at a height of 30 cm from tofu, and let the needle fall freely. Needles that can be inserted into tofu are all high-quality tofu. Old tofu may not be suitable.
3. Cut with a knife, but not too old, with bright color, good taste and no peculiar smell.
4. Gypsum tofu, some of which will taste like sand, because gypsum is not too broken and not delicious.